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Near: "Shinigami like apples, do they? Come a little closer, Mr. Shinigami, and I will tell you just where you can put this one." (Or should that be "shakeapple"?)

Uh, my warmup of the day turned into an ink line art, then a cel-shaded CG work, and now here it is in my gallery. Think of it this way: Shinigami are indirectly responsible for the deaths of everybody Near ever knew growing up with the exception of Roger.

Near's wearing black because of the aforementioned "everybody but me died" theme.

Colored in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.

Near is fromt he anime/manga Death Note, and belongs to Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.

XD Yeah, it seems to be a popular theme. I don't know why people think he's so blank in the first place. If they read the manga, they'd see he has tons of fun facial expressions! He's just quiet and calm, even while smiling deviously, or while angry, or while upset his SPK members got killed.

If you don't get the joke, you probably don't want to. XD; Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I always forget how easy and fun and clean-looking cel-shading turns out. Oo Why don't I cel-shade more often, I ask you? Oya.

Nah, he's still too childish to go nuts on somebody with a knife...now, pelt him some Shinigami with a barrage of apples, maybe! *Envisions Near loading tennis ball mortar with apples and using it like a machine gun* Ow...that's gotta hurt...

I'm happy with how the coloring turned out! This is what happens when two things come together: 1) I have enough free time to color, and 2) I have a clean line art that I could take a well-lit-enough photo of to color.